Posted on 02/14/2017 11:27:19 AM PST by Kaslin
Congratulations to Secretary DeVos. She will now roll up her sleeves and work to ensure that our children receive the education they deserve, and not the education they have been receiving for a long, long time. We know that she wants to begin by devolving a good portion of the responsibility for education from the federal bureaucracy to the states.
As noted by E. Jeffrey Ludwig in American Thinker on February 9, 2017, "Federalism in the area of education with its restored respect for state authority is the key to change and progress." But this will just be a start, not the end. It is time to resuscitate the Constitution of the United States vis-à-vis the responsibility for education.
There has never been a constitutional basis for any federal control over education in the states. National government control of education is a constitutional travesty, a regulatory nightmare, a burden on the states' and the people's budgets, and a burden on the state and local education systems and institutions over which it has made itself the overseer. Secretary DeVos is the right person to work toward the goal of removing the federal government from the educational process.
Mr. Ludwig states that the trend of federal control over education, with its attendant uniformity, was perceived as early as 1926. In fact, federal control, with many of its attendant problems, and the clear fact of its unconstitutionality, was perceived by members of Congress 50 years earlier.
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How and why has the public or governmental role in general academic education of children and youth been translocated from local school districts under local/state governance and oversight to the federal behemoth? Was not the coinage and regulation of currency, and national defense, and the like enough for the federal government to do?
Ask Jimmy Carter. The Department of (mis)Education is his baby entirely.
The best way to proceed is to close it down.
Completely eliminate the Department of Education. Turn over their data to the states with a suggestion that they maintain any data worth sharing, but otherwise . . . scorched earth. Leave nothing behind to build on, no two stones one on top of another. Lease the buildings to productive private companies.
We have to create facts on the ground. Whether President Trump has four years or eight years, we want to make it as hard as possible for the socialists to regain their death grip on the minutia of our lives. The unconstitutional and useless Department of Education is a good place to start.
As the Khan Academy embraced Common Core, I’m not sure it is the future of education, as I once believed. But is rather certain that it is a template which will be built upon and elaborated. If indeed AI is the future of most work as we have known it, surely teaching is a juicy early target profession for AI disruption.
Do you have proof that she is pro Common Core? If so than show it.
Whenever asked anyone, I was told that originally she was for Common Core, but had changed her views and is now against it. I’m not convinced.
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